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Re: X Bottom "Tray"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Fri Nov 13 11:52:33 1998

Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:52:14 -0600 (CST)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
To: gdoris@shaw.wave.ca
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981113075235.gdoris@shaw.wave.ca>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998 gdoris@shaw.wave.ca wrote:

>I don't know what it's really called but I'm talking about the "tray" along the
>bottom of Redhat's X windows.  The one that has start and all the xterm windows
>listed that are open.

actually it's not 'Redhat X windows', but rather redhat's default window
manager when you install it .... 

>Surely there's a better way???

my better way was to use a different window manager.

as a quick introduction, create a file '.wm_style' in your home directory
and have it contain nothing but 'Afterstep' and next time you start X,
you'll be in afterstep instead...


dave

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